When you learn to experience that the Earth is conscious, and that all consciousness has psychic/spiritual dimensions, you understand that in order to be able to relate with the vast consciousness which is the planet, you must construct mental images that you can understand. The Dark Goddess is just this: an imaginative representation of the consciousness of the Earth as a whole. She is a human representation that arises spontaneously when contacting the living awareness of the planet in the inner, psychic/spiritual realms.
When people undertake visionary journeys into the body of the land, they do this through the use of their imaginations, by seeing themselves going down a stair, or sinking into the land. It is then possible to contact the Dark Goddess, who embodies the power and consciousness of the planet which we see outwardly as the opulent green growing world, the forces of weather, ocean energy, and primal life and death forces within nature.
She is called “Dark” because her realm is within the depths of the planet, where the power of nature originates in the inner worlds, the psychic dimensions of Earth. For millennia, people have seen her as female, because, like women, she embodies the mystery of the life force which animates everything and is still little understood by our modern science. She has then, the power of giving: giving life, abundance and sustenance. She also has the power of taking; she who can give can also take away; and it is this power that causes people to fear her, even to the point of calling her evil, and equating darkness with malevolence.
But this fear and rejection of her is a huge mistake, which has been imposed on the Western psyche for centuries. We have on this planet as much dark and night as we have day; to deny and vilify night is just silly. Remember, she isn’t a person at all. She is our representation to ourselves of actual conscious cosmic and planetary forces, which in themselves are neutral; they are the way the universe works. On every level, from amoebas to personal relationships to galaxies, there has to be give and take, ending of the old before rebirth or regeneration of the new. To embrace this fact and work with rather than against it is to come to an entirely new relationship with existence.
Because the entire universe is conscious we can interact with it, so we can talk to, commune with and receive information, healing and inspiration from the Dark Goddess. When I contacted her as a preliminary to opening out the co-creative garden, I went much deeper into the land than when I had contacted the devas and nature spirits of Amity. I told her of our intentions and what had happened so far in our conings. I felt her become hooked in to the project so to speak, bringing her deeper, wider energies to bear. From this interaction I understood that the blessing vibration we want to send out to the world from our co-creative venture will be disseminated much more readily, and that we will also consistently tap into a more profound level as we work.
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